SC - OP recipe request

[Huette von Ahrens]

Cindy skrev:

>Yes.  Kvetch privately.
>It seems to me you went predisposed to have a bad meal (hence all your
>condiments), and so you had one.

Unfortunately, while I was prepared to have a bland feast, I was not
prepared to have an inedible, poorly cooked one. One of the things I think
that this list is trying to do is turn out good food for large quantities of
people at a feast. Unfortunately, this particular feast was intended to
serve a mildly exotic meal  under the name of an SCA feast. How in blazes
are we going to get people to eat "strange" medieval foods, if we can't cook
fairly modern ones properly?

I sat with two newbies, and watched them, and heard them, wondering if this
was what SCA was about. I really felt bad for them, because they'd spent
their money, hoping for something good, no, great, and unusual. It was
unusual, and not the sort of unusual we want them to be exposed to during
their first event. They were the ones who pointed out the political games
that were going on, while they were trying to get themselves some lemonade-
I was distracted, having a pleasant conversation with someone else.

My point was that if you want to try something "new" and "different", for
heavens sake, make it edible, and have the skills to bring it off!!!!! A
feast is not the time or place to fail an experiment!!!!

If one or two dishes had not been very good, or to my taste, fine- that
happens. But for an entire feast to be inedible is beyond the pale.

>Good company can make even burnt offerings enjoyable.

I wish it had merely been burnt.....



Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

"All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a
poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus

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Scotland, the men." -- Johnson

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so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
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